Dark Angels Audiobook (Free)

The long-awaited prequel to Koen’s beloved Through a Cup Darkly, Dark Angels is a feast of a novel that sparkles with all the current passion, extravagance, risk, and scandal of seventeenth-century Britain.

Alice Verney is a young woman intention on achieving her dreams. Returning to England after a messy scandal forced her to flee to Louis XIV’s France, Alice is normally stressed to re-establish herself by regaining her former position as a maid of honor to Charles II’s queen and marrying the most about Dark Angels celebrated duke of the Repair.

But all isn’t as it appears in the rowdy, merry courtroom of Charles II. Since the Restoration, old political alliances have frayed, and you will find whispers that this king is shifting to divorce his barren queen, who some wouldn’t mind seeing useless. Alice, loyal and then a go for few, is devoted to the queen, therefore sets out to find who might become producing sinister plans-and if her very own father is one of them.

When a member of the royal family members dies unexpectedly, the stakes are raised. As Alice guidelines up her attempts to learn who is-and isn’t-true to the queen, she learns of surprising betrayals throughout court, and meets a man who she may fall in like with-and who could spoil most of her programs. With the suspected appearance of the known poison-maker, the atmosphere in the court electrifies, and abruptly the protection of the king himself seems uncertain. Magic formula plots are in play, and war is over the horizon-but might it be with the Dutch or the French? And has Ruler Charles himself betrayed his country for greed?

Memorable in its dramatic force, here is a novel of love and politics, of love and betrayal, of power and succession-and of the resourceful young female who dangers everything for satisfaction and position in an era in which women were afforded small of either.